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SA13 Issue 10 OCTOBER 2010 INSIDE Page 3 Tata Steel, the new network Page 6 Facing the residents’ challenge Centre Four-page Tata Group supplement Page 14 Bonfire night wordsearch
SA13Issue 10OCTOBER 2010
INSIDEPage 3 Tata Steel, the new network
Page 6 Facing the residents’ challenge
Centre Four-page Tata Group supplement
Page 14 Bonfire night wordsearch
Tata Steel SA13 News for the community
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Dear resident
Welcome
A time of change. on 27 September the name corus ceased to exist, as it changed to its parent company’s name of Tata Steel. A special four-page supplement all about Tata Steel has been included in the centre of this edition of SA13. Port Talbot Steelworks has now become part of a very much larger organisation, and one that promotes fairness and a caring philosophy towards its employees and the community at large. even through the recession, the company has endeavoured to continue with its community activities – and long may it continue.
To the tenth edition of SA13, news for the community
As the daylight hours begin to shorten markedly, drivers, cyclists and pedestrians alike should be especially vigilant, particularly during the school run period, and always allow an extra few minutes for your journey.
We will soon be thinking about christmas and all the fun and excitement that goes with it, including the annual switching on of the Port Talbot christmas lights and Santa Parade. more information is avaliable on the back page.
And finally, to encourage your letters and comments, we shall give away a free Tata Steel fountain pen for the most interesting or thought provoking correspondence received and printed in the next issue.
Keith Farroneditor, SA13
On the cover:
New company name for
Port Talbot works.
ContentsBuSineSS3 Tata Steel, the new network
An introduction to europe’s second largest steel producer
4 Good vibrations about coal? The use of ‘reflection seismology’ to explore geological conditions 1km below the surface
5 improving our planet – through weight loss? Attempts to produce lighter–weight vehicles
enerGy & environmenT6 Facing the residents’ challenge
A report on Tata’s environment day, hosted for residents and local councillors
7 optimising our energy efficiency
GenerAl inTereST8 Hot rolling
more on the never-ending story of continuous casting
10 Tata ‘link’ students’ projects with industry eight A-level students’ work experience in the steel industry
CommuniTy11 Club Focus
cwmafan WI
13 Be scared, not scarred, this Autumn! Tips and facts to help keep you safe during firework season!
14 explosive bonfire night wordsearch £10.00 Tesco vouchers to be won!
15 Blodworm’s compost corner It’s a bit batty!
16 What’s on with Tata Steel Your usual guide to even more up and coming events
Ratan Tata honoured with ‘Businessman of the decade’
mr Ratan Tata, chairman of Tata Steel, was recently awarded the Businessman of the Decade Award. The award was presented to mr Tata by mr Sankarnarayanan, Governor of maharashtra, who praised mr Tata, saying that ‘the Tata Group touches the life of every Indian in one way or another’.
Tata Steel – one of the world’s most sustainable companiesTata Steel joined the list of the world’s top 100 most sustainable companies at number 90. US-based General electric tops the list. Research criteria for eligibility is based on 10 environmental, social and governance performance standards, including energy productivity, waste productivity, and transparency. Amongst the top 100, the country with the most entries was the UK with 21 companies, followed by the United States with 12 companies.
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Tata Steel, the new networkTata Steel europe (formerly corus) is europe’s second largest steel producer. With their main steelmaking facilities in the UK (Port Talbot, Scunthorpe, and ‘mothballed’ site at Redcar) and at IJmuiden in The Netherlands, the company supplies a wide range of steel, organic and metallic coated products, and related services to the construction, automotive, packaging, material handling and other demanding markets worldwide.
established in 1907 as India’s first integrated steel company, Tata Steel Group is one of the world’s top 10 steel producers with annual crude steel capacity of more than 28 million tonnes. It is the world’s second most geographically diverse steel producer, with operations in 26 countries and a commercial presence in more than 50 countries around the world. Tata Steel Group has over 80,000 employees across four continents and is a Fortune 500 company.
Uday chaturvedi, managing Director of Tata Steel, Port Talbot Works, says, ‘Uniting under one single brand and one operating model will transform our operations and our approach towards placing customers at the heart of what we do. It is not the name or the colour change that will make the difference, it is our people who are all being driven by a new, but common purpose, that is captured in our vision of becoming the global benchmark for value creation and corporate citizenship.’
Tata Steel – the ‘one’ showlocal residents will have noticed that the red corus signs outside Port Talbot Steelworks’ entrances have been replaced by blue signs bearing the name Tata Steel.
corus became part of Tata Steel in April 2007, but the european company has formally and legally changed its name this autumn. To employees it means much more than just a change of logo. The company is now formally part of a highly diverse, international organisation with a long-term vision, expertise and commitment – as one company.
Being part of Tata gives Port Talbot Works’ access to international markets and, potentially, to new resources too – raw materials, technology and capital investments. Above all, however, wearing the Tata badge reflects that we share the same high standards of business ethics and goals in terms of our commitment to the local community.
In the space of 12 months, Tata has committed to two major capital investments totalling £245 million – that of the BoS Plant energy Recovery and carbon emissions reduction project (completed in march 2010), and the recently announced rebuild of Port Talbot’s Blast Furnace No. 4, planned for 2012.
The Tata branding will gradually be replacing all evidence of corus over the next 12 months or so, replacing corus signage throughout all of the UK sites, as well as employees’ work-wear. So now we really are as ‘one’.
Uday chaturvedi.
Illustration of Tata Steel Goup’s presence around the world.
Uniting under one single brand and one operating model will transform our operations and our approach towards placing customers at the heart of what we do
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Good vibrations about coal?The margam coal Study takes one step further, as a 3D seismic survey is currently being carried out to assess the nature of the underground strata around the targeted coal seam.
A crew preparing to bore a hole for seismic testing.
The technology of ‘reflection seismology’ will be used to generate a three-dimensional subterranean picture that will enable geophysicists and geologists to understand the geological conditions down to 1km below the surface.
corus, now Tata Steel europe, has been studying the potential of a mine for nearly two years, using expertise from Tata Steel and consultants. The seismic acquisition is set to be completed this year, allowing the data to be interpreted and assessed in detail. It is hoped that the reflection seismology will provide a continuous subsurface profile of the underground target area, pinpointing locations of possible geological anomalies such as fault fractures.
Andy Dunbar, Tata Steel’s manager, margam coal Project, says, ‘Should the mine come to fruition, it would be a deep drift mine that will have its opening on the Port Talbot Steelworks site. The project could make the site the only steelworks in the eU, which has access to coal from within its own site, and could make a major contribution to the site’s future competitiveness.’
coal produced in the deep mine will be used to make coke for ironmaking. currently Port Talbot imports all its coking coal, and a site-based mine will reduce carbon emissions caused by the transportation of coal to the Works from around the world. While renewable alternatives exist to replace fossil fuels for the generation of energy, ironmaking requires coking coal just as bread-making needs flour and yeast.
The seismic exploration survey is being carried out in an area of around 10 square kilometres, north east of the Port Talbot steelworks, where a specialist seismic acquisition company has been working closely on our behalf with the local authorities and landowners to gain the necessary access to allow the exploration to progress. A grid-like array of some 1,750 surface points will create a pulse of energy which reflects back (like sonar) from the subterranean strata and is detected by ‘geophones’ enabling an assessment of the depth of a particular feature and type to be measured. The 3D seismic survey also, as its name suggests, creates a three-dimensional view of the target area.
It is important to remember that the project is still a study, and the current exploration is only one of many aspects of the wider margam coal activities. The results from this seismic work will answer some of our geological questions and perhaps take it onto the next stage. We will keep SA13 readers informed.
...the only steelworks in the EU, which has access to coal from within its own site
Heritage of Port Talbot Works 1914 – 1920The last edition of SA13 told the story of the Steelworks’ beginnings. Here, we continue the story…
Between 1906 and 1913, new applications and products continued to be exploited. Initial demand for sections, for bridging and construction, and railway products, soon led to the supply of heavy steel plates for shipbuilding and boiler manufacture.
As a consequence, the Port Talbot Iron and Steel company built a new melting shop and 42” plate mill (revolutionary for its size at the time), both of which were commissioned in late 1914, bringing the Works’ steelmaking capacity up to a quarter of a million tonnes per annum (5,000 tons per week).
At the outbreak of the First World War, the ministry of munitions requested a further expansion of steelmaking capacity. consequently in 1916, under the ownership of Baldwins ltd, construction began on the erection of a new steelmaking facility just half a mile further west, called margam Works. Steelmaking capacity in the area was set to double to 10,000 tons per week with the addition of another new melting shop, but also two new blast furnaces, designed to smelt imported iron ore via a purpose built wharf. The margam Wharf can still be seen today within the existing Port Talbot Docks. By 1918, limited steelmaking operations began at margam Works.
reflection SeismologyThe seismic source, or pulse of energy, can be either a tiny controlled explosion, or creation of artificial vibrations. The sound waves travel through the earth and reflect off boundaries between rock layers of different acoustic properties. most surveys today are conducted by laying out a two-dimensional array of geophones. This allows the interpreter to create a three-dimensional ‘picture’ (called 3D surveys) of the geology beneath the ground.
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Improving our planet - through weight loss?Road transport is estimated to account for 10% of man-made greenhouse gas emissions. During its lifetime, a typical family car will emit about 30 tonnes of co2. It is no surprise therefore that automotive companies are keen to exploit new product developments wherever possible when designing and building new vehicles. Improving fuel economy is a significant way of reducing emissions.
engine performance and economy is always the main focus, but streamlining the shape and reducing the weight of a vehicle can also contribute significantly. Typically, 50% of a vehicle’s body weight is the steel content of the chassis, safety frame and body panels. By working together with the steel industry’s research and development (R&D), automotive manufacturers are developing vehicle parts and panels that use less steel, or weigh less.
In a previous edition of SA13 we wrote about the work of UlSAB, the development of Ultra light Steel Auto Body components. This is a consortium of steel manufacturers working together to promote the benefits of stronger steels to all vehicle manufacturers. Specially developed steel grades with names like Hc300lA, Hc380lA and Dual Phase steels mean very little to the general public, but are now the normal accepted standard material specifications (replacing previously accepted lower strength steels) for all the major automotive manufacturers.
With these types of steels, weight savings of up to 25% are typically achieved on a vehicle’s steel structure, known in the industry as the ‘body-in-white’ (illustrated here). This in turn contributes to the vehicle’s total weight reduction of 9%, or in the case of a typical family car, a saving of 117kg – or 2.2 tonnes of co2 per vehicle over its lifetime. multiply that by how many millions of vehicles are on our roads and the figure becomes really impressive.
even now, Tata Steel is developing the next phase of high strength steels using boron (a chemical element). It is anticipated that these new grades may offer further weight saving opportunities of 100kg of co2 over a vehicle’s lifetime.
So, when it comes to saving the planet through weight loss, you have one small part of the answer.
A ‘body in white’ diagram used to show steel usage in vehicles.
Absolutely souper!one of Britain’s favourite comfort foods recently celebrated its 100th birthday last month. It may come as a bit of a surprise to learn that Heinz Tomato Soup has been stocked on grocer’s and supermarket shelves all over the world since 1910!
The news that this lunchtime staple is still going strong is great news for Port Talbot, and our sister plant at Trostre, llanelli.
The metal used for the steel cans originates from Port Talbot and undergoes processing and is coated with tin at Trostre, before being delivered in coil form to a ‘filler’.
The ‘filler’ produces the cans, fills them with the food product, and then seals the cans with either the ring-pull lid or solid lid requiring a can opener. Because Heinz is such a large company it carries out its own filler and canning operation.
We know that demand for tinned foods and soups rises as the winter weather approaches, but did you know that the tin can sector is also a reliable indicator of how the UK economy is performing? When the economy slows down or is heading into recession, the demand for canned food increases significantly as the consumer is attracted to quick, convenient and ‘comfort’ foods.
So just remember – each time you buy a Heinz soup you are directly helping local industry. That’s food for thought, isn’t it?
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New technology could cut ironmaking emissionsAt our sister plant in IJmuiden in The Netherlands, there is a pilot project under way to explore and develop a new method of producing liquid iron, which could potentially cut carbon emissions by 50%.
The concept has been developed through a merging of ideas with Rio Tinto’s HIsmelt® technology to form the HIsarna project. The technology is based on a process that smelts iron fines and granulated coal together in an oxygen-free cyclone, and heats it to 430°c plus. The HIsarna project is being backed by the Dutch Government, the UlcoS (Ultra-low cost Steelmaking) consortium, and the european commission.
In theory, HIsarna will consume significantly less coal than conventional technology does, which, along with other efficiencies achieved by removing the need for sinter and coke, could result in a 20% reduction in co2 emissions compared with the current blast furnace route. And, if combined with carbon capture and storage, the emission reduction potential increases to 80% – with additional scope to partially replace coal with biomass, natural gas or hydrogen.
The plant aims to produce 60,000 tonnes of liquid iron, experimentally, but it is likely to be a long time before such technology becomes commercially viable to meet current blast furnace outputs of five million tonnes per annum. Nevertheless, it is likely that one day this could be our future.
Schematic of the process and trapping of carbon underground.
Facing the residents’ challenge During the summer, the company hosted an environment day for residents and local councillors representing their communities close to the Works.
The event, the first of its kind, was arranged in response to local residents’ concerns about various environmental issues, mainly airborne, and how the company is tackling them. Representatives from both the environment Agency and Neath Port Talbot county Borough council also supported the event.
Teifion maddocks, environment Team, explaining actions on air quality.
Talking to the residents, lianne Deeming, Director of Business, said, ‘capital investments totalling £130 million have been made on the Port Talbot site over the last four years, and are making dramatic environmental improvements by reducing carbon emissions, fumes, noise and dust.’
The improvements have not come just from large sums of money being invested, but by changing the way the company and its employees do things. For example, the incidences of Kish (extremely fine metallic particles) have fallen substantially by better managing emissions, and through more robust work practices and training. The site’s ‘greening’ initiative is continuing, with the turfing of hard standing areas along roadways and rail tracks, and planting of specially selected foliage shrubs and trees that help trap the blow-off dust. In two years we have turfed the equivalent of 19 football pitches.
Residents who attended the meeting did raise concerns about air quality in the town. even though the number of days where breaches in air quality had reduced, the company recognises that there is still more to be achieved. For example, when Blast Furnace No. 4 is replaced in 2012, it will include the latest environmental technology available, helping to reduce airborne emissions further.
Residents’ concerns about the environment are a high priority to Tata Steel, and small improvements are being made all the time. Such things cannot always be achieved overnight. It is a long-term goal – but the goal keeps shifting! This event was useful, as it allowed residents to express their views and receive answers or explanations from the company. It may have been the first such event, but it will certainly not be the last.
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optimising our energy efficiencyThe company’s vision to create a sustainable steel industry in Wales has been borne out by substantial improvements to energy management and environmental impacts in various parts of the business.
This has been driven by dedicated teams, one of which was created in 2006 with the objective to optimise energy efficiency at Port Talbot Steelworks and to halve the site’s demand for both natural gas and electricity by 2010. This had to be accomplished by:
• Researchinganddevelopingwaystorecoverandreusecombustiblegasses which are produced as a by-product of several processes
• Furtherimprovingtheefficiencyofthesteelproductionprocess and the power plants which serve them.
In order to achieve the ambitious target set, the energy efficiency of the Steelworks had to improve beyond the steel industry’s 2% annual best practice improvement rate. In the last four years, numerous projects have been initiated to achieve the significant reduction in energy imports.
These were:• A£60millioncapitalinvestmentprojecttorecoveranddistribute
previously flared process gas was commissioned in march 2010. This is displacing the import of natural gas and will have the additional benefit in reducing the site’s co2 emissions
• Improvingenergyefficiencybyinstallingstate-of-the-artequipment, like variable speed drives and energy-efficient lighting
• Optimisingair-to-fuelratiosonburnersystems(tomaximise efficiency)
• Automateinstallationstoimproverepeatabilityofperformance
• Engagetheworkforcetoworkmoreenergysmartly,forexample by putting procedures in place to shut down equipment when on stop.
The total program has resulted up to march 2010 in a 15% reduction in energy imports and saves 240,000 tons of direct and indirect co2 emissions per annum.
energy saving success has been complemented by successful environmental optimisation workstreams. one key project has been to recover volumes of iron-bearing and other valuable materials, which are formed as by-products of the steelmaking process, to be fed back into the primary steelmaking processes. The project has not only found new sources of raw material but has reduced the volume of waste being sent to landfill.
There has been a 46% reduction in annual landfill deposition rates and in 2009/10 around over 0.8 million tonnes of raw materials were displaced, achieved by:
• Installationandnovelapplicationoftechnologiestoreducetheoilcontent of some iron-bearing wastes and subsequently increasing the volume of materials recovered. Iron-bearing wastes could be used in the sinter plant, which prepares raw materials for the blast furnaces, but the presence of oil in these wastes is a contaminant and reduces the recycling rate of these valuable materials back into the processes
• Divertingtheslag-richwastesthatwerepreviouslysenttolandfilltoa purpose-built processing area where the various material streams are screened, sorted and processed prior to recovery into the primary steelmaking processes. In addition it has allowed scrap iron, aluminium, sand and demolition rubble to be recovered and recycled
• Recoveringresourcespreviouslydepositedintoourinternallandfill.Though still ongoing, it is anticipated that 140,000 tonnes of material, including slag, scrap iron and aluminium, will be recycled back into the steelmaking process.
energy consumption becomes more obvious during night time.
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Hot Rollingcontinuing on from the last edition of SA13, we look at what happens to the solid slabs produced by the continuous casting process – following them through the Slab Yard and to the Hot Rolling mill.
Slab yard All slabs produced by the continuous casting operation are made to predetermined lengths and widths to meet each customer’s individual requirements.
The Slab Yard acts as a reservoir for feeding the slab through the reheat furnaces. The Slab Yard is an outdoor storage facility with a capacity to stock up to 9,000 slabs, but would normally carry between 4,000 and 6,000 slabs, equating roughly to between 80,000 and 120,000 tonnes. During a typical week, some 3,500 slabs would be converted through the Hot Rolling mill into coil.
Slabs are stored by steel grade and width, and are transported from the exit end of the continuous caster to the Slab Yard by a vehicle called a Kress carrier. This vehicle is capable of lifting and transporting up to five slabs at a time. The driver of the Kress carrier also has to select and transport slabs in the required sequence to the Reheat Furnaces in accordance with a planned rolling schedule.
reheat FurnacesSlabs received ahead of the Reheat Furnaces are loaded or ‘charged’ into one of two furnaces. Slabs are placed at the entry end upon a ‘walking beam’ conveyor, which stretches right through the full length of the furnace.
Bar being passed through the Roughing mill, (note the length).Slab exiting the Reheat Furnace.
each walking beam conveyor is 55 metres long, and literally walks every slab through the ‘red hot’ furnace.
The heating process takes several hours for each slab to meet the optimum rolling temperature of between 1,180°c and 1,250°c. loading the furnace is continuous. As one cold slab is loaded, a heated slab is walked out of the end of the furnace onto the rolling mill.
Both furnaces have recently undergone a major refurbishment, making them amongst the most energy efficient furnaces currently available. Both are lined with refractory bricks which go ‘white hot’ with the heat, and are fuelled by the site’s own source of gas, recycled from the coke ovens. Natural gas is now used only as a back-up fuel. By utilising the site’s own fuel, energy costs are reduced, and so too are co2 emissions. once the slab (now red hot) is placed on the conveyor, a continuous series of motor-driven rollers guides it through two sets of rolls known as Vertical and Horizontal Scale Breakers. Their job is to dislodge (with the additional help of high pressure water jets) scale or oxidation that may have formed on the surfaces of the slab. Unless this is removed it will cause surface inclusions and laminations when later rolled. The slab continues along the conveyor to the Roughing mill.
roughing mill The Roughing mill performs a key service. converting a slab into a coil cannot be achieved in one operation. At this stage in the process the slab has remained at a standard 234mm thick, and whilst the width may have been pre-determined at the continuous casting stage, the Roughing mill is the last opportunity to expand or narrow the slab to the final width requirement.
The reduction in slab thickness is dramatic. From a thickness of 234mm, the slab is passed backwards and forwards through the Roughing mill up to five times until the thickness has reduced to just 38mm. However, the effect of all this squeezing means that the slab has elongated considerably – up to 70 metres long.
At all times, the temperature of the steel is critical to its metallurgical properties and intended end use application. The slab, or ‘bar’ it has now been converted into, is much thinner, and will begin to lose its heat much quicker. Although still red hot, the bar’s temperature has fallen from 1,180°c to below 1,100°c. A further problem is the extended length of the bar, which becomes too long to convey between the different rolling stations. It is here that a touch of engineering ingenuity is applied to the process.
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SA13Issue 10OCTOBER 2010
Tata Group supplement
Shaping our futurebecoming one company
Tata Steel SA13 Tata Group supplement
As corus becomes fully integrated into the Tata Group and takes on the identity of Tata Steel, it is worth taking a look at just how large the Tata Group of companies really is, and the influence it is beginning to develop around the world.
The Tata Group is made up of almost 90 individual companies working in seven global business sectors with a combined turnover of $70.8 billion. These business sectors focus on materials (includes Tata Steel), engineering and Automotive, energy, chemicals, IT and communications, consumer Products, and Financial and Hospitality Services.
materialsTata Steel is the world’s sixth largest steel manufacturer. It operates in more than 20 countries and has a commercial presence in over 50. The company was established in Jamshedpur, India, in 1907. In the past few years, Tata Steel has invested in corus (UK), millennium Steel (renamed Tata Steel Thailand) and NatSteel Holdings (Singapore). With these, the company has created a manufacturing and marketing network in europe, South east Asia and the Pacific-rim countries. It has the capacity to produce over 30 million tonnes of crude steel every year.
Tata Steel has also set up joint ventures for the development of limestone mines in Thailand, the procurement of low-ash coal from Australia and coking coal from mozambique, and the setting up of a deep-sea port in orissa in India. The company is exploring opportunities in the titanium dioxide business in Tamil Nadu, India, and will soon be producing high carbon ferrochrome from its plant in South Africa.
Corus is europe’s largest steelmaker, with operations in the UK and mainland europe. Formed in 1999 through the merger of British Steel and Koninklijke Hoogovens, corus was acquired by Tata Steel in January 2007. corus has a crude steel production capacity of 20 million tonnes and supplies long and strip products to the construction, automotive, packaging, aerospace, engineering and energy industries worldwide. As of the 27 September 2010 the company became Tata Steel.
Based in Singapore, natSteel Holdings is the leading provider of steel in the Asia Pacific region. It has operations in seven countries: Singapore, china, Thailand, Vietnam, malaysia, the Philippines and Australia. The company became a part of Tata Steel in 2005 and produces about two million tonnes of premium steel products.
Tata BlueScope Steel, established in 2005, is 50:50 joint venture between Tata Steel and BlueScope Steel (Australia). The company manufactures and markets products in coated steel and its applications in the steel building industry. Tata BlueScope Steel has three business divisions: coated steel, buildings solutions, and building products and distribution. The coated steel business markets metallic coated and pre-painted steel for the building and construction industry. The Tinplate Company of india (TCil) is the country’s largest producer of tinplate. established in 1922, the company pioneered the manufacture of tinplate in India; today it accounts for over a third of the market. The company’s products are used for canning and packaging of goods in the processed foods, paints, beverages, dairy products and other industries.
engineering & AutomativeTata motors is India’s largest automotive company. Through subsidiaries and associate companies, Tata motors has operations in the UK, South Korea, Thailand and Spain. Among them is Jaguar land Rover, the business comprising the two iconic British brands. It also has an industrial joint venture with Fiat in India.
The company, formerly known as Tata engineering and locomotive company, began manufacturing commercial vehicles in 1954 with a 15-year collaboration agreement with Daimler Benz of Germany. It has since developed the Tata Indica, India’s first indigenously manufactured passenger car, and the Nano, the world’s cheapest car.
It is also the world’s fourth largest truck manufacturer and the second largest bus manufacturer. Tata cars, buses and trucks are being marketed in several countries in europe, Africa, the middle east, South Asia, South east Asia and South America.
The Tata commitment At the Tata Group, we are committed to improving the quality of life of the communities we serve. We do this by striving for leadership and global competitiveness in the business sectors in which we operate.
our practice of returning to society what we earn evokes trust among consumers, employees, shareholders and the community. We are committed to protecting this heritage of leadership with trust through the manner in which we conduct our business.
Tata Group of companies
Left: Tubing products.
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Tata Cummins is a 50:50 joint venture between Tata motors and cummins engine company of USA. Tata cummins is a world leader in the design and manufacture of diesel engines.
Tata Advanced materials (TAm) undertakes the design, application engineering, prototyping, testing and manufacture of products in advanced composites for high-tech and industrial sectors. It is the largest manufacturer of personnel armour products in India and the only Indian manufacturer and exporter of composite parts for spacecraft and aircraft. The company also manufactures composite parts for the aerospace, telecom and medical electronics industries.
Telco Construction equipment Company (Telcon) is India’s leading provider of equipment and services in the construction and earth-moving industries. Set up in 1961 as a division of Tata motors, it is now a 60:40 joint venture between Tata motors and Hitachi construction machinery co of Japan. The company manufactures a wide range of construction equipment.
Six things you didn’t know about Tata • TheTatalogosignifiesfluidity,afountainofknowlede,ora
tree of trust under which people feel safe.
• TataGroupheadquartersisinMumbai,India.
• TheTataGrouphasbeenrankedthe11thmostreputablecompany in the entire world.
• TheTataGrouphasroughly357,000employees.
• TheTataGroupbelievesthatthebusinessofbusinessis‘creation of sustainable value’, meaning we should give back to the society what came from the society.
• TataSteel’sEuropeanheadquatersisbasedinLondon.
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energyTata Power is India’s largest power utility in the private sector today, with a presence in generation, transmission, distribution and trading. The company was established in 1911 as the Tata Hydro-electric Power Supply company to supply power to mumbai. Tata Power has an installed power generation capacity of over 2,300mW in the areas of thermal, solar, hydro and wind energy generation.
Tata BP Solar was set up in 1989 as a joint venture between Tata Power and BP Solar, one of the largest solar energy companies in the world. The company uses renewable energy to provide water irrigation systems, domestic and commercial heated water projects, solar-powered road safety aids, and integrated photovoltaic solutions for industry. more than 60% of company sales come from exports, mostly to europe and America.
Tata manufactures automotive products and components.
energy resourcing is key for the future.
chemicalsTata Chemicals (Tcl) was established in 1939. Following consistent expansion within India, recent investments have focused on the global soda ash business by acquiring the UK-based Brunner mond group and American company General chemical Industrial Products Inc. The company also makes food additives and fertilisers. It exports to markets in europe, Africa, South east Asia and the middle east.
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over a century… and counting… 1868 Jamsetji Tata sets up the central India Spinning & Weaving manufacturing company.
1903 The Taj mahal Palace Hotel opens – the first hotel in the Tata business.
1907 The Tata Iron & Steel company is formed. In 1912 the eight-hour working day for employees is introduced, long before many countries in the West implemented it!
1932 Tata takes to the airways with its own airline, becoming Air India.
1945 Tata engineering and locomotive co. is founded. In 2003 it becomes Tata motors.
1991 current chairman Ratan Tata takes over Tata Group from JRD Tata. The company manufactures its one millionth vehicle.
1998 Tata produces their ‘Indica’ – India’s first indigenous car design.
2000 Acquires Tetley Tea company ($407m).
2001 Tata enters the Financial Services sector, and issues its own Tata credit card in 2005.
2004 Acquires National Steel ($292m) and Daewoo commercial Vehicles ($102m).
2005 Acquires millennium Steel, Thailand ($167m).
2007 Acquires corus plc (£6.2bn).
2008 Acquires Jaguar and landrover cars (£1.1bn). Tata motors launches the $2,500 ‘Nano.’
2009 Acquires citibank Global Services ($512m).
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IT and communicationsThe Tata Group has well-established enterprises in the fields of software and other information systems, telecommunications and industrial automation.
Tata Sky’s direct-to-home satellite platform delivers more than 100 television channels, movies and interactive services for games, learning, recipes, news, chat rooms, etc. It has state-of-the-art digital infrastructure and a retail network that covers more than 4,500 towns in India.
Tata Technologies (TTl), founded in 1989, is a global leader in engineering services outsourcing and product development IT services. It delivers best-in-class solutions for product lifecycle management and enterprise resource management to the world’s leading automotive and aerospace manufacturers.
consumer ProductsTetley tea is a household name in the UK and is the second-largest teabag brand in the world. Tetley was acquired by Tata Tea in 2000. Tetley, which was established in 1837, introduced the teabag to the UK in 1953, and has one of the largest teabag factories in the world.
Tata Coffee is Asia’s largest integrated coffee company. Formerly known as consolidated coffee, the company is a subsidiary of Tata Tea. Its activities range from the growing and curing of coffee beans to the manufacture and marketing of value-added coffee products. The company grows coffee on 19 coffee estates in the southern states of India and produces about 10,000 tonnes of natural shade grown Arabica and Robusta coffees. Tata coffee also deals in plantation requirements such as fertilisers, agri-chemicals, timber, estate implements and tyres and tubes.
Titan industries is a manufacturing company that produces India’s largest and best-known range of personal accessories – watches, jewellery, sunglasses and prescription eye wear. Titan Industries was established in 1984 as a joint venture between the Tata Group and the Tamil Nadu Industrial Development corporation. The company manufactures over 10 million watches per annum and has a customer base of over 100 million consumers.
Financial and Hospitality ServicesThe Tata Group has widespread interests in the hospitality business, and also in insurance, realty, and financial and other services.
most famously, the Taj mahal Palace in mumbai was India’s first luxury hotel built by Jamsetji Tata, the founder of Tata. The hotel consists of 560 rooms including 42 suites. It now operates a chain of five-star hotels around the world, and also owns the Ginger hotel group.
When set up, Tata Consultancy Services (TcS) was India’s first software services company. It is the largest provider of information technology and business process outsourcing services in Asia. It has offices in 42 countries with more than 142 branches across the world.
established in 2007, Tata Capital fulfils the financial needs of retail and institutional customers in India and is registered with the Reserve Bank of India. Tata AIG General Insurance company provides non-life insurance solutions to individuals, groups and corporate houses in India.
chemical sector plays an important part in industry.
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...Hot Rolling continueds Coil BoxBefore passing onto the Finishing mill, the coil has to negotiate the coil Box. This is a piece of kit inserted into the line between the Roughing mill and the Finishing Stand to enable the extended bar length to be handled within a much shorter space. At this point the bar can loosely be described as a coil, although further gauge reductions are still to take place. As the ‘nose end’ of the coil enters the coil Box, it is slowly wound up into a loose coil, and then uncoiled ‘tail end’ first towards the Finishing mill. The coiling effect also stabilises heat loss and helps to equalise the coil’s temperature.
coil ready to be unwound from the coil Box.
The Finishing mill, showing the Seven Stand and replacement rolls awaiting the next roll change.
Hot mill control Pulpit. each process
on the mill is shown on screen visuals.
Water sprays above the Run-out Table help
to cool the strip metal before it is coiled.
Finishing millBy the time the coil enters the Finishing mill it may be anything up to 400 metres long (depending on width and slab length) and is still holding a temperature close to 1,000°c. crop Shears slice the ‘nose end’ of the coil to present a straight edge to the entry rolls of the Finishing mill, and again when the ‘tail end’ reaches the entry rolls.
The Finishing mill configuration (known as the Seven Stand) comprises seven consecutive roll stands or sets of rolls, with each geared to steadily reducing the coil thickness from 38mm down to a gauge range of between 15mm and 1.5mm, depending on the customer’s requirements.
Reducing the thickness so quickly generates a lot of heat, so it is necessary to ensure that water sprays are constantly running whilst rolling. By the time the coil has passed through all seven stands the temperature has fallen to approximately 800°c. The rapid reduction in thickness also means that the length of the coil could now stretch as long as 1.5 kilometres.
Where does the hot rolled coil go from here?much of the hot rolled coil goes onto further processing either within Port Talbot Works for cold Rolling, or to other Tata Steel businesses such as Trostre (for Tinplate), corby, Northamptonshire, and Hartlepool (both for Tubes), and external customers who are also further processing into applications for construction, racking and strapping, fabrications etc.
In the next issue of SA13 we will cover the various applications of hot rolled coil in the market.
As the thickness is reduced, each set of rolls is accelerating the coil forwards through the next set of rolls quicker and quicker until it is literally flying out from the seventh set of rolls along the Run-out Table, to be captured and tightly wound into the finished coil and banded. As the coil is propelled along the Run-out Table to the Down coilers, cooling takes place using banks of water sprays.
even so, coil temperatures can still be as high as 700°c as they are transferred to designated areas to cool. Unforced cooling can sometimes take up to eight days before a coil is ready to be moved.
Tata Steel also continues to hot roll coils at its sister plant at the llanwern Works in Newport. Slabs made at Port Talbot are transferred daily by rail to llanwern Works.
llanwern’s hot rolling process is identical, but because the mill there was constructed at a later date (in the 1960s) to that of Port Talbot, there is no need for a coil Box. The gap between the Roughing mill and the Finishing mill is sufficient not to need it.
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Tata ‘link’ students’ projects with industryeight A-level students received the opportunity to work on technical projects in the steel industry through the summer – and returned to celebrate their achievements.
The students, all from local schools in the Neath Port Talbot and Swansea area, were chosen from over 35 who applied. each was given a workplace mentor, a graduate from the Steelworks, and together they decided upon a suitable project to work on for a five-week period.
The ‘link’ project programme, in its third year at Port Talbot, is supported by the Armourers and Brasiers company, and is seen as a great opportunity for students studying their first year of A-levels to gain access to the workplace and put their theoretical studies into action. The exploratory projects were located in the Hot and cold mills, the Steel Plant and continuous casting, and with the Blast Furnace process safety team.
The judging panel was impressed at the level of understanding the students had of the plant within such a short time, and the standard of research work involved. The presentation evening was an opportunity for the students to display their findings, while also giving their proud parents and teachers the opportunity to see the projects first-hand. each student received a certificate, and monetary prizes were awarded to the winning projects and to their respective schools.
Winning projects included christopher eaton of Gowerton comprehensive School, who investigated energy consolidation, lloyd Roberts, Ysgol Gyfyn Ystalyfera, whose project involved automatic slag detection in the continuous casting area, and caitlin Price of Brynteg comprehensive, for her safety project looking at the integrity of crane gantry beams.
Ian Phillips, Works manager, commented, ‘It is encouraging to see so many enthusiastic young people. The projects they have worked on will all be implemented to some extent in the workplace. This is an excellent opportunity for local students with an interest in technical careers within industry, and we would welcome them back to the organisation in the future.’
Students and their workplace mentors – Students: caitlin Price, chris Richards, lloyd Roberts, Siobhan Jones, Ryan Davies,
chris eaton, michael Rabaiotti, James Brown, and Sophie Wheeler. mentors: Abimbola Idihero, Anindya Bhattacharya,
Prachi Dholakla, louis Ifesiokwu, Amhad moose, Varun Gomes and Dev Jagadeesan.
The Armourers and Brasiers CompanyThe company was founded in 1322 and has occupied the same Hall in the city of london since 1346. The company is a leading charity in the UK supporting metallurgy and materials science education from primary school entry right up to postgraduate levels. For further information into the company’s history, visit: www.armourersandbrasiers.co.uk
A one in a hundred chance – would you believe it!A visit to the city of Bath on a weekend in September saw a large display of 100 aerial photographic images of different landscapes across the British Isles. one image was catching a fair bit of attention. Upon moving closer and jostling through the crowds of tourists, I saw to my amazement it was an aerial picture of the iron ore stockyards in Port Talbot.
The exhibition provides the opportunity to celebrate, explore, and be inspired by our small island. The ‘Britain from the Air’ outdoor Street Gallery encourages visitors to learn more about and enjoy Britain’s most breathtaking and thought provoking environments. From coastal erosion and abandoned villages to transport networks, industry and cities, the exhibition combines the beauty and abstract contours of these landscapes with text captions devised and written by the Royal Geographical Society that reveal the stories behind the images.
The outdoor Street Gallery is situated in the open spaces all around Bath cathedral, and is on display until the end of February 2011. The photography is stunning, so if you get the chance to visit Bath don’t miss this exhibition.
For further information visit: www.britainfromtheair.com
Keith Farron, editor SA13
Above: Information board on the steel industry.
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cwmafan WI members making cotton shopping bags.
CluB FoCuS
cwmafan WIFormed in 2003, the cwmafan Women’s Institute (WI) is relatively new in terms of how long the WI has been established. Starting with just 23 ladies, the cwmafan WI has more than doubled its membership to 58. The cwmafan WI meets on the first Thursday of each month at 6.30pm at the cwmafan community centre, where the group regularly invites interesting and topical speakers, or gets involved in practical demonstrations. However, it does not stop there. A wide variety of interests are catered for, including a book club, a walking group, a darts team, an entertainment group and craft classes.
To give you a taste of the wide range of activities, the group has received tuition in golf, croquet, new age kurling, and Nordic walking. Helping the village community is also popular, with the WI regularly participating in litter picks, and making and distributing hundreds of cotton re-useable bags locally. They also produced a local walk leaflet for a WI national competition, which led to cwmafan WI being a finalist in the 2009 Neath Port Talbot environment Awards and meeting Iolo Williams.
The WI choir is also much appreciated for its entertainment in the Borough and achieved second place in this year’s margam Festival ‘last choir Standing’ competition.
Notwithstanding all this activity, the WI manages to squeeze in a number of ‘away days’, travelling far and wide on day trips and also to WI conferences. Indeed, three of cwmafan’s members’ photographs have been selected to appear in the Glamorgan WI calendar for 2011.The group also enters lots of competitions, and are the current winners of the 2010 ‘Bridgend Shield’ (for the fourth time) for the greatest number of entries in the Glamorgan Federation WI show. These ranged from preserves and bread making (1st prizes), to painting and beadwork.
So, if you want to take part in an active ‘get up and go’ group why not join us? All ages are welcome and you can come just as a visitor to see if you would like to join the cwmafan WI. For further information about cwmafan WI please contact Sylvia on 01639 772399.
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‘olympic’ event takes to the waterThe Port Talbot Works’ reservoir became the location for qualifiers for the Special olympics Great Britain National Kayaking championships.
Special olympics competitors and support crews.
SNAc members trying their hands at kayaking.
The event saw young people with special educational needs competing in preparation for the international Special olympics World summer games that are set to take place in Athens next year.
Ten athletes raced courses of 200 metres or 500 metres, solo or in pairs, in strong headwinds and challenging waves. The event was run by Special olympics cymru, sponsored by Tata Steel and hosted by corus margam Sailing club, which provided volunteers and safety boats. Following the success of this event it is likely that the eglwys Nunydd reservoir will become a regular venue for Special olympics water sports activities.
Presenting medals to the special needs athletes, Dr Hywel Francis mP hailed the competitive spirit of the athletes and stated the importance of sport at all levels of capability in the community.
As special needs athletes proudly displayed their olympic medals, local people with special needs, from Port Talbot’s Special Needs Activity centre (SNAc), took the opportunity for a day’s expert coaching and facilities to try their hand at kayaking and canoeing. David Ferris, chair of the multi Unions at Port Talbot Works, and close associate of SNAc, commented, ‘This has been a new experience for SNAc members who have been able to expand their range of skills.’
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Bank – on a World Party weekend – HolidayThe August Bank Holiday saw a multi-cultural party take place in the grounds of the National Waterfront museum in Swansea.
World Party Weekend is all about diversity.
The two-day event organised by Swansea city council, and sponsored by Tata Steel, was a celebration of the different cultures in the Swansea Bay area and the culturally diverse nature of the community. Samba Tawe took to the Tata stage with their latin and African influenced percussion and dance. Stage entertainment continued with a blend of world rhythms including a ceilidh group, an Indian dance group, belly dancing and capoeira.
Among the groups in attendance were the Bangladeshi Integration Group, the Swansea chinese centre, and for the first time, the Arabian Group. each of the groups and communities in attendance gave an insight into their heritage through interactive workshops, customs, tastings, and exhibits.
This event proved an ideal opportunity to promote diversity awareness in an increasingly multi-cultural community. Taha Idris, Director of Swansea Bay Race equality council, and the lord mayor of Swansea were also in attendance at the event, which promises to be even bigger and better next year.
Third year lucky for festival fun at GlyncorrwgThanks to the weather, this year’s Afan River Festival was a great success. Heavy rains have previously prevented the August event taking place for the last two years.
The festival was held at Glyncorrwg Ponds and Football Field, and featured a range of free activities including pond dipping, bouncy castles and magic mirrors, as well as stalls selling crafts and refreshments.
organisations exhibiting include Groundwork, the local fire safety team, community Safety Police, local Action centre, Health challenge Wales, Keep Wales Tidy, Alive & Ticking and other local groups. Part sponsored by Tata Steel, the Afan River Festival plays a major role in helping people rediscover their community spirit and celebrate their local culture and identity.
Without the enthusiasm of local residents, events like this would be difficult to keep going – which is why Tata Steel was keen to support the project.
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Be scared, not scarred, this Autumn!most injuries caused by fireworks are to children under the age of 16 – a lot of children with burn scars for life. Fireworks are mini-explosives dressed up in colourful packaging – they are not toys. They burn at high temperatures and can cause terrible injuries very quickly, including sparklers which can reach 2,000°c, which is more than 15 times the boiling point of water.
our advice is to enjoy fireworks at properly organised public events, but if you are planning to light fireworks, remember that by following a few simple rules you can have a good time and stay safe too:
• OnlybuyfireworksfromareputabledealerthathavetheBritishStandardKitemarkand which conform to BS 7118.
• Don’tdrinkalcoholifsettingofffireworks.
• Keeptheminaclosedmetalbox.
• Followtheinstructionsoneachfirework.
• Besureotherpeopleareoutofrangebeforelightingfireworks.
• Onlylightfireworksonasmooth,flatsurfaceawayfromthehouse,dryleaves,and flammable materials.
• Lightthematarmslengthusingataperandstandwellback.
• Nevergobacktothemoncetheyarelit.Evenifithasn’tgoneoff,itcouldstillexplode.
• Neverthrowfireworksandneverputtheminyourpocket.
• Lightsparklersoneatatimeandwearglovesandnevergivethemtochildrenunderfive.
• Whenasparklergoesout,DON’TTOUCHIT–itcouldstillburnyou,soputthehotend down in a bucket of water.
• Keepyourpetsindoors.
• Keepabucketofwaterhandyincaseofamalfunctionorafire.
did you know? • Itisillegaltoselladultfireworks*toanyoneunder18,orforanyoneunder18topossess
adultfireworksinapublicplace(*anyfireworksexcludingcaps,crackersnaps,indoorfireworks, novelty matches, party poppers, serpents, sparklers and throwdowns).
• Fireworkslegislationmeansthatitisillegaltosetofffireworksbetween11.00pmand7.00am, unless celebrating special occasions like New Year, Diwali, and chinese New Year, when fireworks can be set off until 1.00am. Breaking this curfew can incur a fine of up to £5,000, or up to six months’ imprisonment.
• Itisillegalforshopstosellfireworkslouderthan120decibels.Just one of the attractions at the Festival.
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We have five £10.00 Tesco vouchers up for grabs for the first five correct entries drawn at random.
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Bonfire night wordsearch
All you have to do is identify and circle all 15 words hidden in the wordsearch and send your entry to: Wordsearch Competition, Communications Department, Tata Steel, Business Headquarters, PO Box 42, Port Talbot SA13 2NG.
Closing date for entries is Friday 19th november 2010. All winners will be notified by the following Friday. The five lucky winners of the SA13 Summer wordsearch were: Mrs M Handford, Sandfields, Mrs E Lewis, Goytre,Luke Miller, Baglan, Mr D Wiliiams, Port Talbot, Chloe Turner, Sandfields. Each won a pair of cinema tickets.
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Closing date for entries is Friday 19th november 2010. All winners will be notified by the following Friday. The five lucky winners of the SA13 Summer wordsearch were: Mrs M Handford, Sandfields, Mrs E Lewis, Goytre,Luke Miller, Baglan, Mr D Wiliiams, Port Talbot, Chloe Turner, Sandfields. Each won a pair of cinema tickets.
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Sonar so good, for bats!
Bats are an important part of our natural heritage and are actually very good indicators of a green and healthy environment, and should be encouraged. So here are some interesting facts about this nocturnal animal. The bat can be described as a mouse-like nocturnal flying mammal of the chiroptera family. The word chiroptera, means ‘hand wing’. Female bats normally give birth to just one baby each year, and depending on the species, can live for up to 20 years or more.
All bats can see, but they have developed the use of echolocation to navigate and find insects. Bats project high-frequency pulses of sound, each pulse being about 10 to 15 thousandths of a second long, and the echoes received enable the bat to make a mental map. Using this mental map they are able to avoid the smallest of obstacles whilst locating their prey. most amazing is the bat’s ability to pick up its own echoes when lots of other bats are engaged in their own aerial combat. When the bat locates an insect, it deliberately shortens
the sound pulse until the echo becomes almost continuous just before catching the insect. In just a split second the bat has determined the object’s size, location, how fast it is travelling, and even its texture. Scrummy!
currently, there are 18 species of bat in the UK. They account for more than a quarter of all mammal species found in the UK, and around a fifth of all mammal species worldwide, so they form a significant part of our native wildlife.
The common Vampire Bat (Desmodus rotundus) has burnt-amber coloured fur on their backs and soft velvety light brown fur covering the belly. They have large pointy ears and a flat leaf-shaped nose. Vampire bats grow to about 9cm long, have a wingspan of 18cm, and weigh approximately 60 grams, but this can double after feeding.
common vampire bats need to feed on blood almost daily to avoid starvation. Although this sounds really gruesome, they are not the fearsome, blood-sucking creatures portrayed in the movies, but rather ordinary-looking bats with a highly evolved feeding method. They don’t actually suck blood, but lap it up from cuts made by their razor-sharp incisors. A chemical in the saliva stops the victim’s blood (usually cattle and horses) clotting and numbs the wound.
luckily, vampire bats do not live in the UK but can be found in large colonies in central and South America.
little green fingers ‘in the pink’Bethan Ffion Williams, age 8 from Baglan, was the proud owner of a mini greenhouse, after winning Blodworm’s ‘compost corner’ competition.
The competition asked entrants to explain why it is a good idea to grow your own fruit and vegetables. Bethan was ecstatic with her competition win, as she regularly helps in her grandparents’ garden.
mum said, ‘Bethan regularly enters the SA13 competitions and winning this greenhouse is fantastic. We are so proud. Bethan, who attends Tyle’r Ynn Primary School, was so excited to tell her friends in school that she had won this greenhouse.’
Here is Bethan’s winning entry: Dear Blodworm,
I think growing my own vegetables is a good idea because the vegetables will help me be healthy and grow strong. It means we wouldn’t have to keep going to the shops to buy vegetables and would save money on petrol and means that there won’t be too much carbon dioxide in the air from petrol and diesel. I like to grow plants and would love to have my own greenhouse.
Bethan
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At this time of year, with Halloween and the darker evenings, our imagination conjures up all sorts of scary folklore involving witches, potions, spiders and all sorts of other creepy things. However, the bat, a necessity in every horror movie, is very much maligned. even the vampire bat gets a bad press.
competition winner Bethan Williams.
A hibernating Natterer’s Bat
(photo courtesy of martin o’connor).
Friday 12 november. Christmas lights, the ‘BiG’ Switch on. Civic Centre, Port Talbot.Free to spectators and families. With christmas just a few weeks away, join Swansea Sound and The Wave’s ‘live’ broadcast of the switching on of the lights.
There will be carol singing, bands and street entertainers to celebrate the occasion. entertainments will begin at 5.00pm, with the ‘BIG’ switch on at 6.00pm.
Saturday 13 november. Father Christmas Parade, Port Talbot Town Centre.Free to spectators and families. It’s a carnival atmosphere as Father christmas arrives in town at 1.30pm. The Parade begins at the British Rail car Park in Port Talbot, leading through Station Road, to the civic Square,
and then into the Shopping mall.
Friday 26 november. Christmas lights and Father Christmas Parade, Angel Square, neath.Free to spectators and families. Join in the christmas celebrations with the Father christmas Parade and the switching on of the christmas lights by the mayor of Neath
Port Talbot council. entertainment will commence at 5.30pm from Angel Square, with the Father christmas Parade commencing at 6.00pm. The ‘BIG’ switch on is at 6.30pm.
Friday 3 december. Christmas lights and Father Christmas Parade, Pontardawe Arts Centre, Pontardawe.Free to spectators and families. come and join us for the Father christmas Parade and switching on of the christmas lights. entertainment will commence at 5.30pm
from outside Pontardawe Arts centre, with the Father christmas parade commencing at 6pm from the Football club. The ‘BIG’ switch on commences at 6.30pm.
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How to contact usHow to contact SA13The editor will be pleased to receive your thoughts, opinions and comments on any articles you have read in this issue of SA13 community magazine. We would like to hear your ideas for news and general interest items, as well as registering your club or organisation’s interest as a feature.
Correspondence: The editor, Tata Steel, Business Headquarters, Po Box 42, Port Talbot SA13 2NG. email: [email protected] Fax: 01639 603179
Community Award applications for Port Talbot (and surrounding district)Applications for community awards, community sponsorships, and community ‘assist’ projects must be submitted in writing to the address below. charitable and voluntary organisations must submit application requests on letter headings only (postal or email attachments).manager, community Relations, Tata Steel, Business Headquarters, Po Box 42, Port Talbot SA13 2NG. email: [email protected] Fax: 01639 603179 environmental complaints
call 01639 871111 (24/7) if you have a particular concern about environmental issues such as noise and air quality. All calls will be logged. calls received during normal office hours will be transferred to the energy & environment contact. calls received outside of normal office hours and weekends will be received by the Security Department, and redirected in the normal way. Address: environment manager, Tata Steel, Business Headquarters, Po Box 42, Port Talbot SA13 2NG. Fax: 01639 872159.
Careers information and vacanciesFor all enquiries regarding career opportunities and vacancies with Tata Steel, go to: www.tatasteelcareers.com, or write to us at: Recruitment, Human Resources, Tata Steel, Business Headquarters, Po Box 42, Port Talbot SA13 2NG. email: [email protected]
Tata Steel is delighted to remain as the main sponsor for all the above events in 2010.
Dot com for dot communitycommunity stories and activities can be viewed on our website, which is updated weekly, and you can also browse back issues of SA13 online. Visit www.tatasteelwales.co.uk for further information. It will take you straight to the community page on the Tata Steel website.
SA13 – your community magazineSA13 is written and produced by communications, Tata Steel, Port Talbot Works, for the residents of Port Talbot and surrounding district.
coming very soonSA13 community magazine will soon be on Facebook and Twitter. Yet another ideal way in which to find out your views and opinions on local issues and what is happening in Tata Steel Port Talbot Works.
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What’s on with Tata SteelFor more information on forthcoming sponsored events in the Bay area, visit www.tatasteelwales.co.uk to view ‘What’s on’ in the area.
